Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-18
AFFAIRS OF THE HEART.
The Sentimental Man or Woman Is the
Best Equipped in Life.
BOSTON .JOurD9l
Boston Journal.

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am convinced that the popular verdict
| is in this caee not the correct one, and if
/ these lines have an object that object lies
in the direction OF contribution toward
an effort to show that the truly
sentimental man or woman has the
best preparation toward the practical
affairs of life.
As usual, philology is at fault. The
word sentimental has suffered as much
DETECTION from it's simple, real meaning
as has the word practical. The latter has
come to stand for things real, the former
| for things unreal; OR if more liberal minds
| deny the strict truth Of this designation
they will scarcely attempt to reject o
modification OF it by which it is Claimed
that to follow the practical affairs of life
! is to follow the things which are certainly
and surely the remuneratiVe things of life,
| the things about which we actually know.
and whose value is real because it is in
things seen and proven. While to follow
things sentimental is TO pursue shadow,
or st least thing which, if attained, does
not respond to the demands of busy and
effective human career.
Nothing could be further from the logic
of human experience. Every achieve
ment has its beginning in the mind. All
reality is in the thought. Here is the
root of the deed. 1t is the man Of the
true sentiment only who has behind him
and before him an effective career.
A good mother was lamenting to me
the other day that her daughter, charm
ing girl of sixteen, was so impractical.
AS sn illustration of this quality she re-
peated to me the question which her
daughter had put 70 her in al good faith
and sincerity: Chow does q person
know when room has been swept?" This
young woman needed to ap-
ply Goethe's maxim. She
needed perception. For the
duction of "Faust," or the sweeping
room, the same sort Of practicability is
required. do not know what is going
| to be done with her. Her mother de-
sires that she shall become occupied with
her practical affairs Of life. but l am not
sure that her mothers ideas of the prac-
teal are sharp enough to strike
come truly and effectively practical
one must see straight and feel right.
| 1t is matter of pure perception and
proper sentiment. When this right
action of head and heart are obtained,
| the doing will follow, and, whether q
| book is to be written or a room is TO be
swept, the thing in hand Will be properly
clGssed among the practical affairs of
| life.
After this il is all matter of preoccu-
patton. II the preoccupztion be an affair,
as in the case of my absent friend, Of
pure sentiment, i. e. sn sffaie du cGur, it
will, as in her case, deserve classification
among the practical affairs of life, her
vast expenditure OF squire sentiment"
was accompanied by vast expendi-
ture of pure perception and prompt
energy and good money to the infinite
betterment of all concerned. Had
her preoccupstion been the same, but
without the rightness of sentiment and
purity of perception, this affection of
hers would have resulted in mere waste
of feeling and time, and would deserve
classification among those wretched So
called affairs du ceur which can never
arrive at the dignity of the practical Of
fairs OF life.
| ROSE ELIzABETH CLEVELAND.